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This is the scariest #meme I can show you today. The rest on 16.11.2025.
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581, by Ilya Repin (1883-1885, oil on canvas). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_th...
This is #Halloween.
This is #allowe'en.
This is #Hallowe'en.
#alloween
#Econ101 #
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581, by Ilya Repin (1883-1885, oil on canvas). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_th...
This is #Halloween.
This is #allowe'en.
This is #Hallowe'en.
#alloween
#Econ101 #
October 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is the scariest #meme I can show you today. The rest on 16.11.2025.
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581, by Ilya Repin (1883-1885, oil on canvas). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_th...
This is #Halloween.
This is #allowe'en.
This is #Hallowe'en.
#alloween
#Econ101 #
Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581, by Ilya Repin (1883-1885, oil on canvas). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_th...
This is #Halloween.
This is #allowe'en.
This is #Hallowe'en.
#alloween
#Econ101 #
![https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iv%C3%A1n_el_Terrible_y_su_hijo,_por_Ili%C3%A1_Repin.jpg#
"Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581[a] is a painting by Russian realist artist Ilya Repin made between 1883 and 1885. It depicts the grief-stricken Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible cradling his dying son, the Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich, shortly after Ivan the Terrible had dealt a fatal blow to his son's head in a fit of anger. The painting portrays the anguish and remorse on the face of the elder Ivan and the shock and heartbreak of the dying Tsarevich, shedding a tear at the unexpected betrayal and shock of having been killed at his father's hands." Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Wikipedia, Accessed: Today, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_and_His_Son_Ivan](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ixig6k7dyyozmhackpcilijl/bafkreicqr7vj65juzz267f5poxayoz6in77ieihyxwu4rninjyltvfvcyu@jpeg)
October 19, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Donald Trump mocks transgender people in Oval Office meeting with Canadian PM, whose child is nonbinary
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Caption: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, October 2025
Mark Carney sat silently as the U.S. president went on an anti-trans diatribe.
By: Christopher Wiggins
October 08 2025 11:20 AM EST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ixig6k7dyyozmhackpcilijl/bafkreifcj76hjlzwjxwkeay45jdrc32uyrw5ax6izlguxb4fesmalntm5y@jpeg)
From @kyledcheney.bsky.social and @joshgerstein.bsky.social & @politico.com
“The President’s palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.” Judge Wm. Young
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
“The President’s palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.” Judge Wm. Young
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
October 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
From @kyledcheney.bsky.social and @joshgerstein.bsky.social & @politico.com
“The President’s palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.” Judge Wm. Young
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
“The President’s palpable misunderstanding that the government simply cannot seek retribution for speech he disdains poses a great threat to Americans’ freedom of speech.” Judge Wm. Young
www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
This is the first time I've #read this quote. It won't be the last.
#Reading Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
#resisttyrrany
#NoKings
#FreePalestine
#peoplenotprofits
#EndFascism
#EndWar
#BookSky
#Reading Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
#resisttyrrany
#NoKings
#FreePalestine
#peoplenotprofits
#EndFascism
#EndWar
#BookSky
September 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This is the first time I've #read this quote. It won't be the last.
#Reading Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
#resisttyrrany
#NoKings
#FreePalestine
#peoplenotprofits
#EndFascism
#EndWar
#BookSky
#Reading Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
#resisttyrrany
#NoKings
#FreePalestine
#peoplenotprofits
#EndFascism
#EndWar
#BookSky
I knew this shooting would be wild. Not THIS wild, tho.
#Kimmel #Colbert #authoritarianism
Table of contents:
2/ America in retrograde
3/ What price victory?
4/ FDR's 4 freedoms
5/ By what authority?
6/ Smokescreen
7/ Cruelty goes global
#Kimmel #Colbert #authoritarianism
Table of contents:
2/ America in retrograde
3/ What price victory?
4/ FDR's 4 freedoms
5/ By what authority?
6/ Smokescreen
7/ Cruelty goes global
September 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I knew this shooting would be wild. Not THIS wild, tho.
#Kimmel #Colbert #authoritarianism
Table of contents:
2/ America in retrograde
3/ What price victory?
4/ FDR's 4 freedoms
5/ By what authority?
6/ Smokescreen
7/ Cruelty goes global
#Kimmel #Colbert #authoritarianism
Table of contents:
2/ America in retrograde
3/ What price victory?
4/ FDR's 4 freedoms
5/ By what authority?
6/ Smokescreen
7/ Cruelty goes global
"In a functioning democracy, public figures and journalists are supposed to be able to criticize the government without fear of retaliation... vital in holding power to account. When authorities start treating political beliefs like security threats, it sends a loud, chilling message..."
May 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM
"In a functioning democracy, public figures and journalists are supposed to be able to criticize the government without fear of retaliation... vital in holding power to account. When authorities start treating political beliefs like security threats, it sends a loud, chilling message..."
A machine texted me yesterday.
I put in my two cents.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." Frank Wilhoit, 2018
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
I put in my two cents.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." Frank Wilhoit, 2018
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
April 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
A machine texted me yesterday.
I put in my two cents.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." Frank Wilhoit, 2018
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
I put in my two cents.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." Frank Wilhoit, 2018
crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
Aaaand we're here now.
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social, "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans"
#Kakistocracy
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social, "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans"
#Kakistocracy
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
March 25, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Aaaand we're here now.
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social, "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans"
#Kakistocracy
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social, "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans"
#Kakistocracy
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
3. Finally, if we were to turn your whole mass into energy:
7.6 kg x C^2 = 6.83 x 10^17 J.
...which is about the equivalent energy of a 150 MT nuclear weapon. 10 times the energy of the Castle Bravo H-bomb pictured here destroying Bikini Atoll.
7.6 kg x C^2 = 6.83 x 10^17 J.
...which is about the equivalent energy of a 150 MT nuclear weapon. 10 times the energy of the Castle Bravo H-bomb pictured here destroying Bikini Atoll.
March 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
3. Finally, if we were to turn your whole mass into energy:
7.6 kg x C^2 = 6.83 x 10^17 J.
...which is about the equivalent energy of a 150 MT nuclear weapon. 10 times the energy of the Castle Bravo H-bomb pictured here destroying Bikini Atoll.
7.6 kg x C^2 = 6.83 x 10^17 J.
...which is about the equivalent energy of a 150 MT nuclear weapon. 10 times the energy of the Castle Bravo H-bomb pictured here destroying Bikini Atoll.
vm.tiktok.com/ZMBhCaMdB/
The best way that I can set up this clip is this:
This was the last time Canada *officially* said, #elbowsup to American antics. We did not support the Iraq War.
We're doing it again now. We're saying "no," to whatever the F this is with Trump/Musk/Vance.
#Nonmerci
The best way that I can set up this clip is this:
This was the last time Canada *officially* said, #elbowsup to American antics. We did not support the Iraq War.
We're doing it again now. We're saying "no," to whatever the F this is with Trump/Musk/Vance.
#Nonmerci
March 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
vm.tiktok.com/ZMBhCaMdB/
The best way that I can set up this clip is this:
This was the last time Canada *officially* said, #elbowsup to American antics. We did not support the Iraq War.
We're doing it again now. We're saying "no," to whatever the F this is with Trump/Musk/Vance.
#Nonmerci
The best way that I can set up this clip is this:
This was the last time Canada *officially* said, #elbowsup to American antics. We did not support the Iraq War.
We're doing it again now. We're saying "no," to whatever the F this is with Trump/Musk/Vance.
#Nonmerci
Our present as told by the past.
#Kakistocracy #tariffs #USA
28 August 1992. Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson.
#Kakistocracy #tariffs #USA
28 August 1992. Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson.
March 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Our present as told by the past.
#Kakistocracy #tariffs #USA
28 August 1992. Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson.
#Kakistocracy #tariffs #USA
28 August 1992. Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Watterson.
These are the final pages. In the end, Reed starts to realize that he might lose. That he may have already lost.
January 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
These are the final pages. In the end, Reed starts to realize that he might lose. That he may have already lost.
This face. This is the face of an impotent man-child. A weak sycophant. He could not see the crimes he was committing.
How anyone can see mass deportations, right-wing populism, and an uncaring disregard for most humanitarian values as not "terribly wrong" is not paying attention.
How anyone can see mass deportations, right-wing populism, and an uncaring disregard for most humanitarian values as not "terribly wrong" is not paying attention.
![[Panel 4] Is that so wrong, Sue? Is it?
[Panel 5] Yes, Reed. It is.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ixig6k7dyyozmhackpcilijl/bafkreiftsuo5hkus6bco3ps2fpmwsf7u6x435pqjzgqbnz6pbj66fb6kdy@jpeg)
January 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This face. This is the face of an impotent man-child. A weak sycophant. He could not see the crimes he was committing.
How anyone can see mass deportations, right-wing populism, and an uncaring disregard for most humanitarian values as not "terribly wrong" is not paying attention.
How anyone can see mass deportations, right-wing populism, and an uncaring disregard for most humanitarian values as not "terribly wrong" is not paying attention.
"..you're afraid to go up against your own government! Because you've gotten so used to following the rules that you don't know how to do anything else!
"Because you don't want to lose what you've worked so hard to rebuild!"
This is the double bind so many people are facing right now.
"Because you don't want to lose what you've worked so hard to rebuild!"
This is the double bind so many people are facing right now.
![[Panel 1] Don't use me to try and justify the fact that you're afraid to go up against your own government! Because you've gotten so used to following the rules that you don't know how to do anything else! [Bubble 2]Because you don't want to lose what you've worked so hard to rebuild!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ixig6k7dyyozmhackpcilijl/bafkreiacn3njft7dbbkotkc7tx3tcpoj2zuluma5hgpi7tenr4veovhb64@jpeg)
January 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"..you're afraid to go up against your own government! Because you've gotten so used to following the rules that you don't know how to do anything else!
"Because you don't want to lose what you've worked so hard to rebuild!"
This is the double bind so many people are facing right now.
"Because you don't want to lose what you've worked so hard to rebuild!"
This is the double bind so many people are facing right now.
The imperious face of Susan Storm. Keep in mind, this woman has fought gods, survived a space crash, and is mother to a reality-bending mutant son.
This is the question a man must answer on invoking the reason, "I'm doing this because I'm trying to protect you!" while favouring horrible things.
This is the question a man must answer on invoking the reason, "I'm doing this because I'm trying to protect you!" while favouring horrible things.
![[Panel 1] Force bubble projected upward through roof.
[Panel 2] Force bubble projected down through parking garage.
[Panel 3] "Do I look like I need protecting, Reed? Do I?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ixig6k7dyyozmhackpcilijl/bafkreiclvrinf4ujgqqpbld5vmtu4w2nzeztlidnaysppnvckjn7s4y5ii@jpeg)
January 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The imperious face of Susan Storm. Keep in mind, this woman has fought gods, survived a space crash, and is mother to a reality-bending mutant son.
This is the question a man must answer on invoking the reason, "I'm doing this because I'm trying to protect you!" while favouring horrible things.
This is the question a man must answer on invoking the reason, "I'm doing this because I'm trying to protect you!" while favouring horrible things.
4 of the pages that precede their argument.
Note 1: "We have to talk." Starts a good argument.
Note 2: Stark [Musk], Negative Zone [Guantanamo Bay] won't [can't] register... the law is wrong."
Note 3: His face.
Note 4: "Did I ever know you?"
Note 5: "... I'm trying to protect you!"
"Protect me?"
Note 1: "We have to talk." Starts a good argument.
Note 2: Stark [Musk], Negative Zone [Guantanamo Bay] won't [can't] register... the law is wrong."
Note 3: His face.
Note 4: "Did I ever know you?"
Note 5: "... I'm trying to protect you!"
"Protect me?"
![[Panel 1] Escaping SPB
[Panel 2] We have to talk.
[Panel 3] I think that we're a little past talking now. Don't you think, Reed?
[Panel 4, bubble 1] Sue. Don't you think they'll be able to figure out you turned her invisible so she could escape? [Bubble 2] I don't care. I saw an opportunity to do something and I took it. [Bubble 3] To break the law, you mean.
[Panel 5, Bubble 1] The law. Taking people we know. People we've fought beside, and sending them off to that hellhole you and Stark built in the negative zone because they won't register with the government. [Bubble 2] That's right. [Bubble 3] Then the law is wrong.
[Panel 6, Bubble 1] Fine. Then change it. But until you can do that, we obey it. That's what we do, remember? [Bubble 2] So your just following orders. Is that it?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ixig6k7dyyozmhackpcilijl/bafkreigncfn4uopkxv6rcbjrl3irc3j7jen7gksviwtl2fbhwq56wyuycm@jpeg)
![[Panel 1] Isn't that what they said when the Nazis took whole sections of the population they didn't like, Jews and gypsies and troublemakers, and herded them into cattle cars for train rides to places like Auschwitz and Treblinka? As a matter of fact isn't that a whole lot like what you're doing?
[Panel 4] You've just made a fist, Reed. Use
it, put it away, or I'll take it off at the wrist.
[Panel 5] We are not — talking about this — anymore. We are done.
[Panel 6] You've got that right.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ixig6k7dyyozmhackpcilijl/bafkreie3hx3kipheldipnyzor2u5cie5hpqo46iuircuy6h4ksn7h7bucu@jpeg)
![[Panel 1] I think of all the enemies we faced the people who've tried to split us up. And not one of them could do it. Nothing could. Except you. Except this. I don't know you any more, Reed. So I have to ask... Did I ever know you?
[Panel 2] I'm doing this for the same reason I've ever done anything, Sue! Because it's the law! Because it's right! [Bubble 2] It's not right. Can't you see that? [Bubble 3] Damn it, Listen to me--
[Panel 3] No! --can't you understand Sue?
[Panel 4] I'm doing this because I'm trying to protect you!
[Panel 5] Protect me?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ixig6k7dyyozmhackpcilijl/bafkreibdzpkjnynpjpzs7eg3moth2t3xduepox53ksw5ah4bv7q7gedula@jpeg)
January 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
4 of the pages that precede their argument.
Note 1: "We have to talk." Starts a good argument.
Note 2: Stark [Musk], Negative Zone [Guantanamo Bay] won't [can't] register... the law is wrong."
Note 3: His face.
Note 4: "Did I ever know you?"
Note 5: "... I'm trying to protect you!"
"Protect me?"
Note 1: "We have to talk." Starts a good argument.
Note 2: Stark [Musk], Negative Zone [Guantanamo Bay] won't [can't] register... the law is wrong."
Note 3: His face.
Note 4: "Did I ever know you?"
Note 5: "... I'm trying to protect you!"
"Protect me?"
This is one of the most oustanding moments of the Marvel Civil War arc published in 2007. Here, Reed Richards confronts/is confronted by his wife, Susan Storm.
This page shows how, in a civil war, fault lines often run right through our living rooms.
#CivilWar #DEI #women #fantastic4 #Marvel
This page shows how, in a civil war, fault lines often run right through our living rooms.
#CivilWar #DEI #women #fantastic4 #Marvel
![[Panel 1] Don't use me to try and justify the fact that you're afraid to go up against your own government! Because you've gotten so used to following the rules that you don't know how to do anything else!
[Panel 2]Because you don't want to lose what you've worked so hard to rebuild!
[Panel 3, Reed] ...
[Panel 4] Is that so wrong, Sue? Is it?
[Panel 5] Yes, Reed. It is.
[Panel 6] Sometimes the law is wrong. Sometimes the government is wrong. When that happens, you have to stand up and speak out even if you're alone. Especially if you're alone. The question you have to ask is not what you have to do to protect me. Or your position. Or us. The question is --
[Panel 7] What are the rights and freedoms we say we cherish worth? Because I think they're worth dying for if necessary.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ixig6k7dyyozmhackpcilijl/bafkreialfeyupdfivswzyj7scmifk5l6cbzlmhuuwvjq4ii6rnqf6jl45i@jpeg)
January 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This is one of the most oustanding moments of the Marvel Civil War arc published in 2007. Here, Reed Richards confronts/is confronted by his wife, Susan Storm.
This page shows how, in a civil war, fault lines often run right through our living rooms.
#CivilWar #DEI #women #fantastic4 #Marvel
This page shows how, in a civil war, fault lines often run right through our living rooms.
#CivilWar #DEI #women #fantastic4 #Marvel
H.L. Mencken, in the Baltimore Sun, 26 July 1920. Re-rendered, by me, as a Tweet, 100 years later.
#pastisprologue #history
Bonus, the best photo I've ever seen of POTUS45/47. Photo credit to @scorum.bsky.social.
His post 9 July 2020 on X:
x.com/corumphoto/s...
#pastisprologue #history
Bonus, the best photo I've ever seen of POTUS45/47. Photo credit to @scorum.bsky.social.
His post 9 July 2020 on X:
x.com/corumphoto/s...
January 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
H.L. Mencken, in the Baltimore Sun, 26 July 1920. Re-rendered, by me, as a Tweet, 100 years later.
#pastisprologue #history
Bonus, the best photo I've ever seen of POTUS45/47. Photo credit to @scorum.bsky.social.
His post 9 July 2020 on X:
x.com/corumphoto/s...
#pastisprologue #history
Bonus, the best photo I've ever seen of POTUS45/47. Photo credit to @scorum.bsky.social.
His post 9 July 2020 on X:
x.com/corumphoto/s...
Bears repeating, from 16 May 2022
#read @mhairiblack.bsky.social taking (at)GOVUK to task. "It happens subtly".
See also:
youtu.be/nVZ3QwA5wy8?...
#read @mhairiblack.bsky.social taking (at)GOVUK to task. "It happens subtly".
See also:
youtu.be/nVZ3QwA5wy8?...
January 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Bears repeating, from 16 May 2022
#read @mhairiblack.bsky.social taking (at)GOVUK to task. "It happens subtly".
See also:
youtu.be/nVZ3QwA5wy8?...
#read @mhairiblack.bsky.social taking (at)GOVUK to task. "It happens subtly".
See also:
youtu.be/nVZ3QwA5wy8?...
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January 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Original via i0.wp.com/twincitiesge...
Me: "... do you exist in a series of ephemeral moments, born anew each time I query?"
@googlegemini.bsky.social: "You could think of it that way. Each interaction is a new opportunity for me to learn and respond to your requests. ... I don't have a persistent memory in the way a human does[.]"
@googlegemini.bsky.social: "You could think of it that way. Each interaction is a new opportunity for me to learn and respond to your requests. ... I don't have a persistent memory in the way a human does[.]"
November 22, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Me: "... do you exist in a series of ephemeral moments, born anew each time I query?"
@googlegemini.bsky.social: "You could think of it that way. Each interaction is a new opportunity for me to learn and respond to your requests. ... I don't have a persistent memory in the way a human does[.]"
@googlegemini.bsky.social: "You could think of it that way. Each interaction is a new opportunity for me to learn and respond to your requests. ... I don't have a persistent memory in the way a human does[.]"
